// shelter in place & parentheses

I hope this finds you surviving and at least sometimes thriving. ❤ This year has brought some of the best Continue reading →

// can we have our ball back?

Just a note on the eve of another lockdown to share some good news about Borderline Fortune, forthcoming from Penguin Continue reading →

// winner of the national poetry series

  In the midst of my county burning down and threatening to suffocate us all, I’m still honored and deeply Continue reading →

// the reckoning

Updated Nov. 2020 If you followed my work at all before 2020, then you know Berfrois and its sister publication, Continue reading →

// empty mirror, the afterlife, & the london magazine

  Today in Empty Mirror: Three poems from my project in progress, Borderline Fortune, with thanks to editor Denise Enck. Continue reading →

// bye, 2019

  May 2020 be the year we rid the White House of an aspiring fascist, collectively exceed our targets for Continue reading →

// borderline fortune

Five and a half years ago, Russell Bennetts messaged out of the blue and asked me to send him some Continue reading →

// (not) my writing desk

There are people who feel nostalgic for high school, and there are those who do not. Perhaps without exception, I’ve Continue reading →